George Clooney Quotes

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.

[Journalists are] more attentive to the minute hand of history than to the hour hand.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

I talk about things that are front page news.

Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.

It was great to learn producing news from the bottom up and although I often looked at the reporters and thought, 'I could do that!'

Going from local news to a network operation is learning a whole new ballgame. The way you go about it and the stories you cover are so different. I feel at Fox I have a lot more autonomy about doing my work.

When you are a journalist and there is a big story like Dominic Cummings, it's great to be at the heart of it. What I love, and it sounds a bit cheesy, is you feel connected to other people.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.